We use survey data from all accepted applicants to Teach for America 1993-98 to assess the longer-term effect of youth service on participants' current civic attitudes and behaviors. While TFA "graduates" score higher than the two comparison groups--"drop-outs" and "non-matriculants"--on a broad range of attitudinal items measuring civic…

Domestic violence continues to be a serious problem for women in the United States. As a result, the battered women's movement has been tireless in campaigning for greater awareness of the issue, tougher penalties against offenders, and public vigilance against potential batterers, including fathers from dissolving families. In reaction to this…

Uses Youth-Parent Socialization Panel Study data to explore biographical consequences of low-risk participation in 1960s antiwar and student protests. Compared to nonactivists, former protesters married later; had fewer children; and were more liberal politically, more educated, more likely to work in knowledge or helping occupations, and less…